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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the plan, labor and management would cooperate through a system of voluntary restraints in which both sides would make sacrifices. With some exceptions, price rises would be held to less than the average of the past two years, while wages and most benefits would go up no more than 7% annually. All companies, no matter how large or small, would be expected to follow the guidelines. Firms with sales of $250 million or more annually would have to file reports to COWPS showing that their price rises were being kept within the prescribed limits. Offenders would first be warned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Those Mystifying Guidelines | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...tennis boom of the '60s and the running boom of the '70s," says Chicago's Morrie Mages, owner of the country's largest sporting-goods store, who has seen his sales of cross-country ski equipment increase fivefold in the past year alone. In California, ski resorts that two years ago had only 100 to 200 cross-country skiers a weekend, today may have 1,000. "It started as a neat thing to do in winter for people who were backpackers," says Dave Chantler of Seattle. "Now joggers, bicyclists and others are catching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cross-Country Skiing Takes Off | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...Daniel Ziskie place banderillas of rage, revenge and practical jokery in each other's heads, but their heads are the arena from which they will never escape. In Lone Star, a Viet Nam veteran named Roy (Patrick Tovatt) longs to escape from a changed Texas and preserve the past of his youthful high jinks. He loves to guzzle beer and maul his button-headed brother Ray (Leo Burmester), and worships his 1959 pink Thunderbird convertible. When that is totaled by Cletis (Peter Bartlett), the moment of maturity arrives. McLure's effervescent gift for black comedy makes both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Third Running of the Derby | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Considering that Greacen has gone to the national meet for the past three years, that prediction doesn't seem unreasonable...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Divers Excel | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Harvard stayed within range until period two, but Cortland's Nancy Owen broke the game open with two quickies. Owen took advantage of some loose play around the Crimson net 31 seconds into the stanza, then fired the puck past Nelia Worsley's glove side from about 20 feet to make the score...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Icewomen Fall to Cortland St. | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

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